The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of...

modern Afroasiatic languages are descended. Though estimations vary widely, it is believed by scholars to have been spoken as a single language around...

The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic...

Tifinagh letters. The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They comprise a...

The Chadic languages form a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken in parts of the Sahel. They include 196 languages spoken across...

language. Omotic is generally considered the most divergent branch of the Afroasiatic languages. In early work up to Greenberg (1963), the languages had...

In addition, the languages of Africa include several unclassified languages and sign languages. The earliest Afroasiatic languages are associated with...

communities, before this original language dispersed geographically and divided into separate distinct languages. Afroasiatic languages are today mostly distributed...

population. Other Afroasiatic languages with a significant number of speakers include the Cushitic Sidamo, Afar, Hadiyya and Agaw languages, as well as the...

oldest Afroasiatic language documented in written form, its morphological repertoire is very different from that of the rest of the Afroasiatic languages in...

Africa as a whole, and the country contains languages from the three major African language families: Afroasiatic, Nilo-Saharan and Niger–Congo. Nigeria also...

speak languages belonging to the Semitic branch of the latter Afroasiatic family, with the Hindustani and British residents speaking languages from the...

Uralic languages; some languages from the similarly controversial Altaic family; the Afroasiatic languages; as well as the Dravidian languages (sometimes...

Austronesian, Japonic, Dravidian, Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Turkic, Sino-Tibetan, Kra–Dai and Koreanic. Many languages of Asia, such as Chinese, Persian, Sanskrit...

The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Tigrinya, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese and numerous other...

Ethiosemitic and Sayhadic languages, the Western branch, they form the South Semitic sub-branch of the Afroasiatic language family's Semitic branch. In...

Snoj [13] – Swedish Etymological Dictionary by Elof Hellquist [14] – Afroasiatic Etymological Dictionary by S. A. Starostin et al. [15] – Arabic Etymological...

Semitic, part of the Afroasiatic language family. With 57,500,000 total speakers as of 2019, including around 25,100,000 second language speakers, Amharic...

Semitic language family is considered part of the broader macro-family of Afroasiatic languages. The earliest attestations of any Semitic language are in...

Ethiopian people of Eritrean descent Most languages spoken in Eritrea are from the Afroasiatic and Nilo-Saharan language family. Tigrinya Tigre Dahalik Arabic...

Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Hayward, Richard J. 2003. 'Omotic: the "empty quarter" of Afroasiatic linguistics'...

Eurasia, as well as the Afroasiatic languages of North Africa and the Horn of Africa, and the Eskimo–Aleut and the Na-Dene languages of the New World. Murray...

according to which the Indo-European languages, Uralic languages, Altaic languages, and Afroasiatic languages would all belong to a larger macrofamily...

the Afroasiatic family, specifically, Lowland East Cushitic in addition to Afar and Saho. Somali is the best-documented of the Cushitic languages, with...

proto-language from which the modern Berber languages descend. Proto-Berber was an Afroasiatic language, and thus its descendant Berber languages are cousins...

of quadriliterals, and in some languages also biliterals). Such roots are also common in other Afroasiatic languages. While Berber mostly has triconsonantal...

migrated and did not return. Ongota has features of both Afroasiatic and Nilo-Saharan languages that confuse its classification, and linguists and anthropologists...

Northern Berber languages are a dialect continuum spoken across the Maghreb, constituting a subgroup of the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic family. Their...

official language which is still the language of working, education and administration. The languages of Mauritania mainly consist of various Afroasiatic languages...

Nilo-Saharan language, traces of which still remain. However, Fleming (2006) considers it to be an independent branch of Afroasiatic. Languages of Ethiopia...